CEC denies accusations of influencing election outcome through additional lists

The Central Election Commission (CEC) has stated that the number of persons who voted on additional lists owing to the mistakes made in the main electoral rolls is much lower than in the previous elections, Info-Prim Neo reports. The statement comes in reaction to the information broadcast by the mass media, according to which the results of the November 28 early legislative elections were influenced through the agency of additional lists. According to the CEC, 165,580 persons voted on additional voters lists in Sunday's elections, 65,500 of whom abroad. In the previous parliamentary elections, this figure was about 19,000. The Commission stresses that after the Election Code was amended this July, most of the students who do not live in the settlements where they study where able to voted on additional lists. The Transnistrians voted by the same method. A number of 123,250 people voted on additional voter lists in the 2001 parliamentary elections, 159,869 in the 2005 elections, 117,794 in the April 5, 2009 elections, 100,906 in the July 29, 2009 elections, and 165,580 in this year's elections.